TELCOG Texting vs TruText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TELCOG Texting
Communicate with customers using your business phone number for texts and picture messages. Access your conversations from multiple devices and allow your team to manage incoming messages. Customers can easily reach you via text without needing a separate app.
- Use business number for texting
- Send/receive texts and pictures
- Access messages on multiple devices
- Browser access via computer
- Multiple users share one number
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Make and receive text messages using your business phone number! • Use your business phone number to text instead of your personal number • Send and receive text and picture messages to/from any cell phone number in the continental US View your messages on multiple devices: • Use your account on multiple devices with one sign-in • Access your messages from any computer via your browser (Chrome/Firefox/Edge) • Multiple users can access the same number so you or your team can reply to any message Now your customers can communicate with you with the ease and convenience that they have when texting with friends and family. No need to download a separate messaging “app” to contact you - they can simply text your business number and get in touch.
TruText
Enable businesses to text customers using their existing landline numbers. This mobile application serves as an extension of the company's online software, streamlining customer communication.
- Text from landline numbers
- Customer communication tool
- Extension of online software
- Business-focused features
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This app provides businesses to use their landline numbers to text their customers. This is an extension of our online software.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TruText at every 2 months against TELCOG Texting's every 7 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TELCOG Texting against 5.0 for TruText. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
TELCOG Texting ships an update every 7 months, TruText every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | TELCOG Texting | TruText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Textable | TruText LLC |
Customer experience
TELCOG Texting
TruText
In-app purchases
TELCOG Texting
No in-app purchases
TruText
No in-app purchases
